Ten Years Later: Remembering Iraq
EVENT WITH SHANE CLAIBORNE, GREG BARRETT, JEREMY COURTNEY and others, ten years after the Iraq bombardment...
From Soldier to Pacifist
BY: MATT YOUNG -- The key reason I have become a pacifist, or believer in non-violence, whatever technical term we want to call it, is this....
Sharing Stories at the Wild Goose Festival
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Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Nobody Wants to Die
Whether it's Kony, Syria or Iran, one thing is clear: Americans think more of military intervention than preemptive love. This wouldn't be surprising, except that so many Americans identify themselves as ...
The Gospel of Rutba: Saved on the Streets of Iraq
Hardly anyone ever visits our community, Rutba House, without asking, “So what does Rutba mean?” Once someone confessed they thought it must be an obscure Old Testament character they’d forgotten.
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Collateral Murder and Preemptive Love
Today I was catching up on emails and came across two messages that deeply affected me, maybe because I read them back to back. The first one is from a friend who helped release the “Collateral Murder” video ...
Reflections on the Arab Spring and the Persecution of Christians
As dictator after dictator was deposed in North Africa, people around the world began to talk about the “Arab Spring.” Many claim that what was happening in countries like Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt represent...
Can Christians Learn from the War in Iraq?
A number of commentators have been asking what lessons we might learn from the war in Iraq. With American troops having been so recently withdrawn from that nation, this is certainly an appropriate question. I...
The Church of Outrage vs. The Church of Vulnerability
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Increased Demons in the Middle East
I recently read an article which spoke glowingly of the uprising of people in the countries of North Africa. Referring to Tunisia and then especially to Egypt, there were positive reactions to what seemed to ...